A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by its results.Publishers WeeklyThis collection of stories is prefaced with an essay on the nuclear threat so trenchant and irrefutable that the book is worth reading for that alone.

Summer 1970 - A Long, Hot Summer. In A Castle In Italy, Half A Dozen Young Lives Are Afloat On The Sea Of Change, Trapped Inside The History Of The Sexual Revolution. The Girls Are Acting Like Boys, And The Boys Are Going On Acting Like Boys, And Keith Nearing - Twenty Years Old, A Literature Student All Clogged Up With The English Novel - Is Struggling To Twist Feminism And The Rise Of Women Towards His Own Ends. The Sexual Revolution May Have Been A Velvet Revolution (in At Least Two Senses), But It Wasn't Bloodless - And Now, In The Twenty-first Century, The Year 1970 Finally Catches Up With Keith Nearing.--publisher Description. Martin Amis.

Martin Amis's brilliant and controversial new novel, already hailed in the British press as "Dickens with a snarl" and a "great comic extravagance." After Xan Meo is brutally attacked in the garden of a London pub and suffers a severe head trauma, his wife and daughters find they are living with a stranger-unpredictable, violent, vengeful, lost: "His condition felt like the twenty-first century: it was something you wanted to wake up from." While it may alarm his family, Xan's new personality is a good match for the city and the age in which he lives. For this is the vicious London of tabloid journalist Clint Smoker, whose daily reports of illicit sex and outrageous scandal are every bit as fake (and artful) as the noose tattooed around his neck. This is a world where the King of England keeps a Chinese mistress in Paris and tries to suppress a video-taped, bathtub "intrusion" of his fifteen- year-old daughter from reaching the internet. A world of hit men, pornographers, tycoons, and displaced royalty. A world where brilliant people perform unspeakable acts and bodyguards provide no protection. Yellow Dog is Martin Amis at his dazzling best-comic, fierce, gritty, and profound. Amis explores what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable: patriarchy and the entire edifice of masculinity; the violence arising between man and man; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanished dream that we can protect our future and our progeny. ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARTIN AMIS's most recent book was Koba the Dread. He lives in LondonThe New York Times… the writing is still agile and exact, the hyperbole driven and punishing and the characters -- when he lets them be -- charismatically repulsive. — Walter Kirn

a Haunting New Novel That Ratifies Martin Amis’s Standing As “a Force Unto Himself,” As The washington Post Has Attested: “there Is Simply No One Else Like Him.”in The Slave Labour Camps Of The Soviet Union, Conjugal Visits Were A Common Occurrence. Valiant Women Would Travel Vast Distances, Over Weeks And Months, In The Hope Of Spending Just One Night With Their Lovers In The So-called House Of Meetings. Unsurprisingly, The Results Of These Visits Were Almost Invariably Tragic.martin Amis’s New Novel, the House Of Meetings, Is About One Such Visit; It Is A Love Story, Gothic In Timbre And Triangular In Shape. Two Brothers Fall In Love With The Same Woman, A Nineteen-year-old Jewish Girl, In 1946 Moscow, A City Poised For Pogrom In The Gap Between War And The Death Of Stalin. The Brothers Are Arrested, And Their Fraternal Conflict Then Marinates Over The Course Of A Decade In A Slave Labour Camp Above The Arctic Circle. The Destinies Of All Three Lovers Remain Unresolved Until 1982; But For The Sole Survivor, The Reverberations Continue Into The Next Century.a Short Novel Of Great Depth And Richness, the House Of Meetings Finds Martin Amis At The Height Of His Powers, In New And Remarkably Fertile Fictional Territory.the Washington Post - Thomas Mallon… E Book Gnaws At One's Memory. Amis Tries To Imagine History With The Intimacy And Specificity That The Greatest Historical Novelists, Including Tolstoy, Have Always Presumed To Seek For It. History Is The Element That Soviet Citizens Were Encouraged To See Themselves Living In And Moving Through, Always Forward; It Is The Element From Which Americans Tend To See Themselves, Even Now, As Being Exempt. For Amis's Narrator, It Is The Swirl In Which We Swim And Sink, A Poison That Lays Waste To Millions Of Lives And Sullies Even A Kiss.

From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling-and foretelling-three decades of American lifeSet in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories.In 'Creation,' a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island-flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In 'Human Moments in World War III,' two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda.Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New YorkerOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsAwe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever. Readers meet one of Nabokov's funniest and most heartrending characters: Timofey Pnin, a professor of Russian at an American college, who lectures in a language he cannot master.

A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita."Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The GroupAn ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, Vladimir Nabokov's witty novel achieves that rarest of things in literature—perfect tragicomic balance.

This National Book Award-winning novel takes place in Depression-era Chicago and is not only a testimony on human nature but also of the drive to succeed. The novel follows the adventures of a lifelong dreamer named Augie March, who only through failure after failure finally succeeds in the end. The novel recreates life during the Depression and is filled with memorable characters.The Atlantic Monthly - Martin AmisThe Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further. All the trails went cold 42 years ago. The quest did what quests very rarely do; it ended.

The Author Paints A Picture As Panoramic As His Title Promises, Of The Life Of 1870s London, The Loves Of Those Drawn To And Through The City, And The Career Of Augustus Melmotte.